One Direction: This Is Us

One Direction: This Is Us (2013) is a concert documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Morgan Spurlock, it's a backstage pass to the biggest boy band of the era — dressing rooms, tour buses, and the roar of the arena.

The five of them — Harry, Zayn, Niall, Louis, and Liam — met on Britain's X Factor, washed out as solo acts, and got pieced together into a group by the judges. From there their debut Up All Night went global, and the film traces the whole climb, from small hometowns to the stage of London's O2 Arena. Between the live numbers you get the offstage stuff: the friendship, the exhaustion, the strangeness of being mobbed by millions of fans.

This one is built for the fanbase first — plenty of live audio, not much voiceover gloss. Simon Cowell turns up, and so, oddly, does Martin Scorsese. Worth it if you like music docs or want to revisit One Direction at their peak. Stream One Direction: This Is Us (2013) online on iFILM.